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The ‘Soft’ T; the next step

In English, not all t’s are the same.  We have an aspirated t and a stop t. I don’t wax on lyrical about this in class; I just want the students here at my スミス英会話生駒 (English converstation class inIkoma) to notice that a difference exists.  I can change how the ending of a word sounds. These [...]

Listening to The Baby for Eikaiwa Listening

The other day I was thinking about the role of listening in the 英会話 (eikaiwa) industry here in Japan.  A lot of students in my school (スミス英会話生駒) have trouble repsonding because they have trouble with listening.

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